What is it?Premium features are paid features that members can purchase to improve their experience on M9. We launched three today - gifts, family filter, and autofollow.

How to get premium features?By unlocking them with mobile9 credits. Just like tokens at an arcade or amusement park, you can buy mobile9 credits using PayPal (PayPal also supports credit card payment) and then use it to get interesting premium features. We will support more payment methods shortly.

What happen to free stuff?We will continue to support and release exciting free features (more big ones to come!!). This won't change. What you will be seeing is advanced features on top of those awesome free ones. People can then purchase what they need with small amount of $.

Why premium?Because we want to be able to build better M9 for you. We work very hard every day but with limited resources (budget, people, time), we can only do this much. We want to do more. And that's why we need your support. Instead of asking you for donation, or selling you a pro account that includes a bunch of features that you never used, we let you choose what you want & pay a small amount of money for it.

For example, we know you love special gifts. Whenever we release Valentine/Christmas packs you guys talk about it all day, send it to friends you care and make their day. But we can't do this often because someone needs to design all the gifts, get it online etc. A lot of work. We don't have enough resources to do that. With premium, if M9ers love those gifts & purchase them we can then use the money to create more lovely gifts for you.

What else I get?Buying mobile9 credits is a vote of love and a vote of support. We really appreciate that & that's why we award people a badge for it. It's called Power Plus and this is how it looks like. (IMG:http://static.mobile9.com/img6/badge_26.jpg)